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adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Sadly, not nearly as strong as the previous books and really disappointing in some aspects.
I still love Hades and Persephone and they were definitely the highlight in this book for me but it didn't even feel like a Hades and Persephone a book at some point, just...a war book. I also feel like we've lost any aspect of a "modern" retelling β Persephone's media job seems non-existent and all the time is spent in the underworld anyway.
Hermes is reduced to nothing more than comic relief (and bad one at that) and Apollo doesn't appear until like 80% in.
Sooo many people and gods died in this and it all felt so inconsequential and basically noone mourned?? There's horrid things happening and we just don't get any satisfying conclusions.
Definitely my least favourite of the series π₯² Still love the rest of them though π«Άπ»
I still love Hades and Persephone and they were definitely the highlight in this book for me but it didn't even feel like a Hades and Persephone a book at some point, just...a war book. I also feel like we've lost any aspect of a "modern" retelling β Persephone's media job seems non-existent and all the time is spent in the underworld anyway.
Hermes is reduced to nothing more than comic relief (and bad one at that) and Apollo doesn't appear until like 80% in.
Sooo many people and gods died in this and it all felt so inconsequential and basically noone mourned?? There's horrid things happening and we just don't get any satisfying conclusions.
Definitely my least favourite of the series π₯² Still love the rest of them though π«Άπ»
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Sexual violence, Medical content, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, War, Murder, Body horror, Gore, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Grief, Rape, and Sexual assault
Minor: Death of parent
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